Ten surprising ways to make lockdown suck a little bit less, with Atlassian's Dom Price

<p>Last week marked a very special kind of anniversary for me: being a Melbournian, I have now clocked up over 200 days in lockdown.&nbsp;For most of those 200 days, I feel like I've coped pretty well.</p><p><br></p><p>But last week, things felt really hard. I didn't feel like myself and people close to me were struggling too. And I was just sick of hearing the same old advice for how to cope. So I reached out to someone I knew would be thinking differently - Dom Price, head of R&amp;D and resident Work Futurist at Atlassian.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So if you're struggling with lockdown, or maybe just everything that is going on in the world right now, I hope that you'll be able to take at least one thing out of this chat to help make things a tiny bit better right now.</p><p><br></p><ol><li>Find a buddy for&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amantha.com/podcasts/jake-knapp-on-sharing-news-duty-avoiding-video-calls-and-being-a-better-listener/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">News Duty</a></li><li>Do a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.atlassian.com/team-playbook/plays/ritual-reset" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ritual Reset</a>&nbsp;(and check out&nbsp;<a href="https://www.atlassian.com/software/team-central" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Atlassian's Team Central</a>&nbsp;for doing Status Updates asynchronously)</li><li><a href="https://thriveglobal.com/stories/the-three-letter-word-that-will-dramatically-improve-your-day/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Day of Yes</a></li><li>Treat Day (and check out&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com.au/Power-Moments-Certain-Experiences-Extraordinary/dp/1501147765" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Power of Moments</a>)</li><li>Plan an act of service</li><li>Conduct Atlassian's&nbsp;<a href="https://www.atlassian.com/team-playbook/plays/work-life-impact" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Work-Life Impact</a>&nbsp;exercise</li><li><a href="https://www.amantha.com/podcasts/matt-mullenweg-on-how-small-changes-to-behaviour-can-creat